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About 50 gallons of blood pass through the kidney every day and the kidneys job is to filter and clean it. Without your kidneys, your blood will be almost certainly be poisoned, and you would die.
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The kidneys have a higher blood flow than the heart, liver or brain. The kidneys are about three times larger in proportion to body weight than adults. Kidneys are about four and a half inches. You need at least one kidney to stay alive. 26 million Americans have Chronic Kidney disease.
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The kidneys first receive blood from arteries inside the heart. The kidney filters the blood using the nephrons. The waste passes through the ureter and stored in the bladder as urine. The filtered blood returns to the body and begins another circulation around the body.
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